Acrylic on Belgian linen
137 x 122 cm
This painting depicts designs associated with the soakage water site of Kirritjina,
north of Jupiter Well. In mythological times a large group of Tingari men and
Tingari women visited this site to perform ceremonies. They applied their body
paint and after the ceremonies they continued their travels east to Ngaminya,
just to the south-west of the Kiwirrkura community. While at Ngaminya the women
gathered the edible berries known as kampurarrpa or desert raisin from the small
shrub solanum centrale. The women ground these berries to a paste to make damper
while the senior men were instructing the young men in aboriginal law. Since
events associated with the Tingari cycle are of secret nature no further detail
was given.
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Kintore.Certificate Number
JJ0106081
Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri, was born in the desert near where the community of
Kiwirrkura now stands in Western Australia in approximately 1952. He commenced
painting in 1986. In 1999 Joseph contributed to the Kintore mens’ painting
as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal.
REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Parliament House Art Collection
Robert Holmes à Court Collection
Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
The Kelton Foundation Collection, Santa Monica, USA
University of Virginia, USA
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